aehm there is one thing that troubles me, nothing against eyecandy ... but the whole point of bb is putting as much in so few (C-)byts as possible.
but maybe its ok if we open a section with eyecandy (i am voting for fortune to include !) re, wh Michele Sanges wrote: > Roberto, > > the application is almost completed. > It's a program that starts a daemon and then exits; the daemon reads a > configuration file for setting: > - the splash image (in .ppm format) > - position, dimension and RGB colour of the progress bar. > and shows them. > > It is possible to communicate with the daemon by means a fifo; the > possible commands are: > - the percentage of the boot process > - the 'exit' command in order to kill the daemon at the end of boot > process. > > Best regards. > Michele > > Il giorno lun, 04/02/2008 alle 13.48 +0100, Roberto A. Foglietta ha > scritto: >> 2008/2/4, Michele Sanges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm writing an application in order to show a splash image and a >>> progress bar during the boot phase of my embedded device. >>> This application is based on framebuffer device and is in user space so, >>> unlike 'bootsplash', don't require any kernel patch (similar to >>> 'splashy', but not use the directFB library). >>> >>> Someone think that this application could be useful if added to busybox >>> as applet? >>> >> Considering the growing number of embedded devices based on linux >> embedded and busybox it seems to me a good idea. Please take a look >> to asus_osd (from Eee PC source repository) which use X11 but it could >> be generalized to use FB in userspace. It uses queue in order to >> communicate the show... so the progress in boot process too. >> >> ftp://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/701/ASUS_ACPI_071126.rar >> >> In that .rar ther are asus_osd.tar.gz containing the sources >> >> Ciao, > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > busybox@busybox.net > http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox > > > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
